Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’d be hard-pressed to find a part of the Pacific Northwest that’s more important than the Columbia River basin. Fed by the ...

The 2026 federal budget provides some hope for salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin, but mixed signals and conflicting policies continue to sow doubt about the future of the river and its ...

Federal funding shortfalls and staff vacancies are putting the Columbia River Basin’s fish hatcheries — and the salmon and steelhead they produce — at risk, experts warn. The potential fallout could ...

Environmental groups and others want to see hydropower operations changed to favor fish survival. Utility groups warn of problems for the power grid A long-running court battle over how to balance ...

The White House has announced the formation of a Columbia River task force and issued a report outlining the impacts of 11 federal dams on Native American tribes in the region. “Federal dams in the ...

The possibility of removing four Snake River dams — Ice Harbor Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, Little Goose Dam and Lower Granite Dam — has long been a contentious one that has generally split along party ...

David Moskowitz and Eileen Delehanty Pearkes will be in Spokane on June 23 for an event at the Magic Lantern Theatre at 25 West Main Avenue. They’ll be joined by the DR Michel, the executive director ...

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday revoking the Columbia River Basin agreement. The directive nullifies the “Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish ...

Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists feared. President Donald Trump had made major cuts to the programs in ...

A sweeping Biden-era initiative to restore Columbia Basin salmon runs, boost tribal energy development and provide a pathway for dam removal on the Lower Snake River has been canceled by President ...